Philipe Regis DeTrobriand

June 4, 1816 - July 15, 1897

from The New York Times, July 17, 1897:

DEATH LIST OF A DAY.
Phillipe Regis de Trobriand.
Phillipe Regis de Trobriande, retired Gen-
eral of the United States Army, died
Thursday at the home of his son-in-law,
Charles A. Post, in Bayport, L. I. He was
born in France, eighty-one years ago, and
came to America when a youth.
As Colonel of the Fifty-fifth New York
Volunteer Infantry he went to the front
at the beginning of the civil war. In De-
cember, 1862, he was transferred to the
command of the Thirty-eighth New York
Volunteers, and a year later was mustered
out. On Jan. 5, 1864, he was made Briga-
dier General of Volunteers, and on April
9, 1865, Brevet Major General of Volunteers
for meritorious services during the cam-
paign ending with the surrender of Gen.
R. E. Lee. In July of 1866 he was appoint-
ed Colonel in the regular army, and was
assigned to the Thirty-first Infantry. On
March 2, 1867, he received the rank of
Brevet Brigadier General for gallant serv-
ices during the war, and the next year was
transferred to the Thirteenth Infantry. He
retired from the service in 1879.